"David F. Skoll" <[email protected]> wrote: > Andrzej Adam Filip wrote: > >> Anyway SpamAssassin avoids "one socket per one DNS query" it its DNS >> lookups perl package > > This is true. On the other hand, it replaces a 75-line function with > 1473 lines of perl. I wonder which has more overhead? > > You are right about one thing: If you are using SA anyway, then you > might as well try to reuse its DNS code. But holding up SA code as an > example of "performance-optimized perl" is pretty ridiculous. :-) SA > is a huge, bloated, infected-with-not-invented-here-syndrome pig.
It's worst sin (for me) is it's coding methodology almost like "no part of this code will be usable anywhere else" :-) BTW Are you aware about any efforts to "locally join" DNSBL/DNSWL lists available in full version via rsync? [to get "single lookup required" result] -- [pl>en: Andrew] Andrzej Adam Filip : [email protected] A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing. -- Alan Perlis _______________________________________________ NOTE: If there is a disclaimer or other legal boilerplate in the above message, it is NULL AND VOID. You may ignore it. Visit http://www.mimedefang.org and http://www.roaringpenguin.com MIMEDefang mailing list [email protected] http://lists.roaringpenguin.com/mailman/listinfo/mimedefang
